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From Tuesday, February 16 through Saturday, February 20, 2010, Students for Economic & Environmental Justice (SEEJ) and Boalt Hall Environmental Law Society (ELS) will host the 6th Annual Environmental Justice Symposium: “Environmental Justice: Lawyers and Community Partnering for Change.” The week-long symposium will feature lively discussion on the vital intersection of grassroots social change, environmental protection, and civil and human rights. All events are free! Here’s the schedule:

Co-hosted by La Raza Law Student Association, Sponsored by Boalt Hall Committee for Human Rights and the Human Rights Center.

Booth Auditorium, Boalt Hall, 6:00-8:30 pm

Please join us for the UC Berkeley premiere of a documentary on women laborers’ struggle for humane workplace conditions and environmental justice in factories along the U.S.-Mexico border and a post-screening discussion with maquiladora organizers/Mexican labor rights activists. This is a captivating film about the human rights and labour violations, environmental devastation, and "urban chaos" brought about by globalization - focusing on the plight of Carmen, who works the graveyard shift in one of Tijuana's maquiladora, the multinationally-owned factories that came to Mexico for its cheap labor. The film discusses efforts of women within the maquiladoras to assert their own collective rights against exploitation and violence. The film is an example of the need for social change around the issues of globalization, social and environmental justice, and fair trade--issues that are deeply connected to the women who are the subject of the film. The program has been brought to other parts of California but has never before been features in the Bay Area!

Post-screening discussion will be led by Martha Ojeda, Executive Director of the Coalition for Justice, and Maria Magdalena Cerda of Chilpancingo Collective for Environmental Justice.

"EJ Week" Lunch Events:

Tuesday, Feb. 16

The Environmental Justice Movement: History & Skills Every Lawyer Should Know

Accommodations For People With Disabilities
ELS is an equal opportunity group committed to cultural diversity and
compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. This event is
wheelchair accessible. This information can be made available in an
alternate format upon request. For any disability-related
accommodations please contact Sara Clark at saraclark@berkeley.edu. Advance
notice is requested.